Sunday, 25 September 2011

A Gift from My Boss - Nails Inc Little Miss

I was very lucky to be given 2 Nails Inc Little Miss Polishes, Little Miss Naughty & Little Miss Splendid from my Boss.
Little Miss Naughty is a lovely mauve and Little Miss Splendid is a gorgeous green with blue shimmer.  I hope my Boss was thinking of me when he bought Little Miss Splendid!

Beauty Joint Haul No.2

My latest Beauty Joint haul, I love shopping with Beauty Joint as they post from the USA to the UK.
L-R NYX Sea of Cortex (blue with a green/gold sparkle), NYX Golden Lavender (mauve with gold shimmer), Milani French Toast, Kleancolor Chunky Holo Black (so excited about this!!!), Kleancolor Metallic Aqua
Worked out at £12.88 inc P&P from USA, which is £2.57 per bottle, not bad at all!

Thursday, 25 August 2011

I won a Zoya Prize Giveaway from Samarium's Swatches!!!

How very lucky am I?  I've just received the most amazing prize from Sarah of Samarium's Swatches who recently held a giveaway for achieving 300 followers, click here to see Sarah's blog which has loads of lovely and clever manicure designs and well as oodles of other goodies.  Ok, onto the prize.........
I received a lovely card, two rings, 6 Zoya Polishes, and a bottle of Spectraflair top coat - wooohooo...
L-R: Zoya Summertime Collection - Tamsen, Sooki, Kieko, Breezi, Mira, Areej, Spectraflair Topcoat
Two gorgeous rings made by Sarah, clever girl!  A very big thank you to Sarah who sent this prize all the way from the US to the UK, don't forget to check out Samarium's Swatches Blog !!

Sunday, 17 July 2011

July Haul

My July Haul

First up China Glaze White Cap, lovely sheer white with a gorgeous yellow/green tint running through it, looks amazing and can't wait to try it on top of other colours, on sale at Sally's £2.54


Next up China Glaze Peace on Earth which was a swap, photo doesn't do it justice reminds me a bit of Chanel Peridot, so this cost me nothing (hooruh!)

Here they are together....


Bargain of the month these 2 babies were from the 99p shop, look how fab the colours are, 5 ml each


Next up Maybelline Flash Cosmic, it's like a clear with blue flakies through it, again want to try this over darker colours, £1.78 from T J Hughes

And finally this was buy 1 get one free from Claire's so £4.50 for 12 minis, the colours are lovely & shimery and will probably swap one of the sets

So my haul of 17 polishes cost me under a tenner - wooooohooooooo, love a bargain!!

Saturday, 16 July 2011

OPI QVC Prize!!

How lucky am I?  I entered a competition on the QVC UK facebook page for a set of 3 mystery OPI products and I won!!!  Woop Woop!!  And take a look at my fabulous prize .....

L-R - Hot & Spicy, Black Shatter, Pompeii Purple


This is my first shatter polish and i'm absolutely delighted that's it's OPI, can't wait to give it a go and feel utterly overwhelmed at my win, thank you QVC UK x x x

Nails Inc Rainbow Collection

Another very nice gift from my boss the Nail Inc Rainbow Collection, all the colours are flippin' fab, highly recommended and are perfectly summery x

L-R Ebury Bridge, Warwick Way, Sumner Place, Kew Bridge, Westferry Circus, Walton Place

Nails Inc Special Effect Glitter Nail Polish

My 3 Nails Inc Special Effects Glitters which my very nice boss bought me, photo is a bit blurred but it was the only way I could show the glitter sparkle x

L-R Sloane Square, Connaught Square, Bloombury Square

Saturday, 9 July 2011

Spectraflair

After reading blogs on Spectraflair and in particular this blog by More Nail Polish I decided to have a go, ordered my Spectraflair from Ebay and had a play.  I'm really pleased with my results and hope to get some better photos as my camera didn't pick up the holo very well, however in the sunshine they were holotastic!!

So a very BIG thank you to More Nail Polish for the inspiration x

L-R - Added to Clear, Blue Cream, OPI DS Tapestry
Spectraflair added to OPI Tapestry, Rimmel Clear, La Femme Blue Cream, Red Herring Unknown

Here's a swatch of the OPI DS Tapestry with added Spectraflair

Friday, 24 June 2011

Haul from Las Vegas!!



Back from Vegas with 11 new polishes, the Wet & Wild polishes were $1.19 which works out at 76p, so I just had to buy them!! The Island Girl polishes are all matte which I didn't realise, but top coat glosses them up!

L-R: Sparked, Blazed, Sunny Side Up, Tickled Pink, Casting Call, Soul Mate, Waikiki Dream, Mahalo Color, Aloha Girl, Aloha Sunset, Pineapple Plantation.

Kleancolor Haul

I read a post on Facebook by The Polish-Aholic letting us all know that Kleancolor Nail Polish (and others!!) are available at Beauty Joint who ship internationally - woop woop.  I instantly checked this out, next thing I'd ordered 6 polishes that came 8 days later from USA to UK, no bad eh?  Total cost including shipping $22.89 which works out £14.32, that's £2.38 per bottle - amazing!!  And just take a look at the colours......
















L-R Metallic Fuchsia, Metallic Mango, Metallic Pink, Holo Chrome, Holo Blue, Holo Orange

The first three are like foils and the last three are glitter holos, much more sparkly in the daylight.  Full size bottles, think they are 15ml but can't tell as haven't got my glasses on!

I'm deffo going to be buy from Beauty Joint again and would like to thank The Polish-Aholic for sharing this with us non-US nail polish addicts!!

Sunday, 19 June 2011

I WON A GIVEAWAY!!!!

OMG how lucky am I?  I've just won my 2nd giveaway and have only had a blog since the beginning of the year, so to all you lovely nail polishaholics go for it, you just might be a winner!!  I've won two lovely Catrice polishes from Everything Emer check out Emer's great blog, thank you Emer. 

I'm soooooooo excited and can't wait to receive my lovely Catrice Nail polishes in Lavenderlicious & Miracle Heaven, here they are.......

Sunday, 5 June 2011

I WON A GIVEAWAY!!!!

OMG, I'm so excited I've actually won a Giveaway from witoxicity woop woop. 




I've only been blogging for a few months so if you've ever thought about entering a Giveaway but thought that you'd never win, well you just might!!

Saturday, 21 May 2011

La Femme Haul

I've just taken delivery of 18 new La Femme Nail Polishes which were an absolute bargain at £4.99 for 9 polishes which works out at 55p a bottle not bad eh?  I bought 2 sets, 'Neon' & 'New 2010', 18 polishes for under a tenner!  Swatched with 2 coats they cover really well, great bargain, purchased from Faith Cosmetics with free P&P.



L-R (all names start with 'Ultra') Orange, Gold, Tangerine, Pink, Magenta, Raspberry, Green, Yellow, Blue

L-R (all colours end in 'cream') Orange, Rich Pink, Pink, Lilac, Ice Blue, Blue, Mint, Lime, Grey.